What are the medicinal values ​​of Scutellaria baicalensis?

As one of the common Chinese medicines in daily life, Scutellaria baicalensis has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, killing bacteria and reducing inflammation. Nowadays, many people are busy at work every day and forget about their health. Many people are weak and have respiratory infections and physical decline because of work. Then, they need to take good care of their bodies. After talking about Scutellaria baicalensis, some people still don’t know the medicinal value of Scutellaria baicalensis.

[Effects and functions of Scutellaria baicalensis]:

Clears away heat and purges fire; dries dampness and detoxifies; stops bleeding; stabilizes the fetus. It is used to treat lung heat cough, high fever and coma due to febrile disease, liver fire headache, red and swollen eyes, jaundice due to damp heat, diarrhea, stranguria due to heat, vomiting and bleeding, metrorrhagia, fetal heat and restlessness, carbuncles and furuncles. It is used for chest tightness and nausea due to damp-heat and summer-heat, fullness and distension due to damp-heat, diarrhea, jaundice, cough due to lung heat, high fever and thirst, vomiting and bleeding due to blood heat, carbuncles, sores and fetal movement disorder.

① "Ben Jing": It is used to treat various types of heat jaundice, intestinal diarrhea, loose stools, expelling water, blood retention, (treating) malignant sores, carbuncle erosion, and fire ulcers.

② "Bie Lu": Treats phlegm heat, heat in the stomach, lower abdominal colic, helps digestion, benefits the small intestine, blood retention in women, stranguria and bleeding, and abdominal pain in children.

③Tao Hongjing: Treats running pig, heat and pain below the navel.

④ "Materia Medica": It can treat heat toxicity, bone steaming, alternating cold and heat, gastrointestinal discomfort, break up stagnant qi, treat five types of stranguria, make people feel relaxed, remove joint discomfort, relieve heat and thirst, treat abdominal pain caused by heat, and hard and bloated heart and abdomen.

⑤ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): It can relieve qi, treat epidemic febrile diseases, carbuncle, and discharge pus. Treat breast abscess and back rash.

⑥ "Zhenzhunang": eliminates excess yang, cools the heart and removes heat, and relieves cold.

⑦Li Gao: Treats fever and bitter taste in the mouth.

⑧ "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": It goes up to drain lung fire, goes down to drain bladder fire, (treats) five types of stranguria in men, sudden metrorrhagia in women, regulates menstruation and clears heat, treats restlessness in the fetus caused by heat, clears fetal heat, and eliminates excess fire and heat in the six meridians.

⑨ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats wind-heat, damp-heat, headache, heat pain caused by running pig, fire cough, pulmonary tuberculosis, fishy smell in the throat, and blood loss.

⑩ "Bencao Zheng": The dry ones can clear the fire in the upper part of the body, eliminate phlegm and promote qi, calm asthma and cough, stop blood loss, reduce alternating chills and fever, wind-heat, damp-heat, headache, relieve plague, clear the throat, treat pulmonary emphysema, lung abscess, breast abscess and back abscess, especially remove the heat on the skin surface, so it can treat rashes, fistulas, sores and red eyes; the solid ones can cool the heat in the lower part of the body, eliminate dysentery, heat in the bladder, painful and astringent stranguria of the five types, large intestine obstruction, blood in the stool and leaking blood.

⑾ "Scientific Folk Herbs": It can be used to wash wounds and has an antiseptic effect.

What are the functions and effects of the medicinal value of Scutellaria baicalensis? First of all, this medicine has the function of stabilizing pregnancy and promoting sleep, and can also be used by pregnant women. For example, children's diarrhea, irregular menstruation, and fever can all be relieved by Scutellaria baicalensis. This medicine itself can regulate headaches and fevers, and can treat difficult and complicated diseases that have not been cured for a long time.